An attorney for residents who contend Scranton collects millions of dollars more in tax revenues annually than allowed under a state cap cited the city’s budgets and audits in arguing Tuesday in Lackawanna County Court for a decision in their favor.
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The 16 Russian nationals and groups indicted Friday for fraud in their backing of President Donald Trump before the 2016 presidential election organized a series of “Miners for Trump” pre-election rallies across Pennsylvania, possibly including one in Scranton.
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Amid an intense national debate over gun control after last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school, a controversial Wayne County church is co-sponsoring a pro-gun rights dinner Saturday, four days before it wants couples to bring semi-automatic rifles to a blessing ceremony.
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Lackawanna and four other Northeast Pennsylvania counties fall entirely in single congressional districts, but Luzerne and Monroe counties remain split between two districts, according to a new district boundaries map released Monday.
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Bob Mueller finally caught up with Bob Bolus. Last Friday, the special prosecutor investigating Russian meddling in American politics indicted 16 Russian nationals and groups on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States.
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SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. - Six years after opening the flower superstore on Northern Boulevard, the McCarthy Group of Florists this week listed the property for sale - a decision that won't affect the future of the Chinchilla Post Office, officials said.

Ann Frisbie, president and CEO, said the organization is operating two flower shops in the Abingtons, including White's Country Floral, and plans to consolidate to a central location in the Clarks Summit area near other businesses.

Since June 1, 2008, the company has leased a 1,500-square-foot space inside its building to the U.S. Postal Service, expecting the agency to drive traffic to the flower shop. While the Postal Service has shelled out about $180,000 in rent to Brian McCarthy Family LTD, the Chinchilla Post Office has yet to open.

"All these years later they still aren't here, so we don't benefit from that traffic," said Ms. Frisbie. "We're hoping to find a location that would serve those purposes as well."

When McCarthy sells the 5,335-square-foot property at 545 Northern Boulevard - listed at $1.299 million - the lease agreement with the Postal Service will still stand, both Ms. Frisbie and agency officials said.

Under the agreement, which extends through May 2023, the agency pays the property owner $30,916.87 annually.

Over the years, financial hurdles, landscaping and potential safety issues have caused agency officials to delay relocating its operations from a trailer on Shady Lane Road to the leased space.

But agency officials tabbed June 8 as the "occupied date."

"The Postal Service is aware the property that houses the Chinchilla Post Office is for sale but has no intention of buying the site," said Karen Mazurkiewicz, a spokeswoman for the Postal Service's Central Pennsylvania and Western New York districts. "If the property is sold, the lease agreement would still stand."

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